WHAT IS IT? Gaspar Inc. employees recently shipped a 120,000-pound steel heat exchanger from its facility in Canton to a chemical plant in southeastern Ohio. Special equipment for heavy, over-sized loads was used to ship the heat exchanger to the facility where it will be used.

ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT: Gaspar already had shipped three of the heat exchangers before sending this one off in early December. It has orders for several more of the units. The top tank holds liquid natural. It is cooled by running it through 1,300 feet of 1-inch tubing in the lower tank.

WHO IS GASPAR? Gaspar Inc. does welding and fabrication work to construct large tanks, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, autoclaves, piping and other equipment for chemical and petrochemical, pulp and paper, biotech, mining, refinery, polymers and a variety of other industries. The company has been in business since 1967 and now operates from a facility at 1545 Whipple Ave. SW. Employees design and build equipment to meet American Society of Manufacturing Engineering standards by using high performance metals, including nickel, stainless, titanium, carbon steel and other alloys.